WillDekkard
05-09-2010, 03:55 PM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 9th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 1012 BC Solar Eclipse seen at Ugarit, 6:096:39 PM.
* 328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
* 1092 Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
* 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
* 1502 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the New World.
* 1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
* 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
* 1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
* 1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
* 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its dιbut in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
* 1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
* 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
* 1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
* 1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
* 1911 The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
* 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
* 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
* 1927 The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
* 1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
* 1937 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
* 1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
* 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
* 1942 Holocaust: The SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
* 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhowers deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jόrgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
* 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
* 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
* 1949 Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
* 1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
* 1950 L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
* 1955 Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
* 1955 Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets.
* 1960 The FDA announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
* 1961 Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
* 1964 Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
* 1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in Sγo Paulo, by robbing two banks.
* 1970 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
* 1974 Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
* 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
* 1980 In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
* 1987 A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
* 1988 The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
* 1992 Armenian forces capture Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
* 2001 In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
* 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
* 2002 In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
* 2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
* 2006 Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
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- May 9th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 1012 BC Solar Eclipse seen at Ugarit, 6:096:39 PM.
* 328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
* 1092 Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
* 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
* 1502 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the New World.
* 1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
* 1726 Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
* 1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
* 1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
* 1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its dιbut in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
* 1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
* 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
* 1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
* 1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
* 1911 The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
* 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
* 1920 Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
* 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
* 1927 The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
* 1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
* 1937 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
* 1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
* 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
* 1942 Holocaust: The SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
* 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhowers deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jόrgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
* 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
* 1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
* 1949 Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
* 1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
* 1950 L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
* 1955 Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
* 1955 Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets.
* 1960 The FDA announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
* 1961 Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
* 1964 Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
* 1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in Sγo Paulo, by robbing two banks.
* 1970 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
* 1974 Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
* 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
* 1980 In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
* 1987 A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
* 1988 The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
* 1992 Armenian forces capture Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
* 2001 In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
* 2002 The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
* 2002 In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
* 2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
* 2006 Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
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